Drapery hook clip



June 7, 1960 A. JACOBSON 2,939,147

DRAPERY HOOK CLIP Filed July 21, 1958 INVENTOR. A a/24mm J4c0550/v BY u 4 TTUQNE Y United States Patent DRAPERY HOOK CLIP Abraham Jacobson, 3302 Josie Ave., Long Beach, Calif.

Filed July 21, 1958, Ser. No. 749,702

Claims. (Cl. 1-56) This invention relates to a drapery hook clip.

In machines that provide for automatic or semi-automatc insertion of drapery hooks into the heads of drapery, it is desirable to arrange a supply of hooks in a vertical magazine or other holder from'which, one by one, the hooks are removed from beneath and fed to the point of application. It is the filling of such magazines so that the hooks are always oriented in the same direction that the present invention seeks to facilitate, and it is an object of the invention to provide means retaining a multiplicity of hooks properly similarly oriented during their insertion into a magazine in a simple and facile manner.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clip of drapery hooks that is flexible, simplifying insertion into a magazine and removal of the hook-mounted means after such insertion of the hooks.

A further object of the invention is to provide a drapery hook clip in which the hooks are loosely held in place and yet either retain alignment or may readily achieve or be restored to alignment in instances where adjacent books have become mis-aligned and overlapped or snarled.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a clip of loosely connected drapery hooks that are made up with uniform numbers of hooks, thereby greatly facilitating determination of the hook inventory.

The invention also has for its objects to provide such means that are positive in operation, convenient in use, easily installed in a working position and easily disconnected therefrom, economical of manufacture, relatively simple, and of general superiority and serviceability.

The invention also comprises novel details of construction and novel combinations and arrangements of parts, which will more fully appear in the course of the following description. However, the drawing merely shows and the following description merely describes, one embodiment of the present invention, which is given by way of illustration or example only.

In the drawing, like reference characters designate similar parts in the several views. Fig. l is a broken vertical sectional view, partly in elevation, of a magazine for holding curtain hooks and shown with the spline of the present clip or hook partly removed.

Fig. 2 is a broken side elevational view of a drapery hook clip according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view as taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The drawing shows the base plate 5 of a machine for applying drapery hooks 6 to a drapery, a magazine 7 mounted on said plate to hold a supply of hooks 6 in.

stacked arrangement, a sub-base plate 8 parallel to and spaced below the plate 5, and a hook applier member 9 between the plates 5 and S and movable to move the lowermost hook 6a from beneath the stack to applying position offset from the stack.

The present clip 10 comprises a complement of hooks Patented June 7, 1960 6 and a spline 11 connecting said hooks to provide an integrated unitary device as herein contemplated.

The hooks are generally conventional in that each of them is provided with a pointed fabric-penetrating pin 12 that is connected to the hook part 13 by a loop 14. In practice, the loop 14 is so formed that the eye 15 defined thereby is slightly greater in size than the space 16 between said pin 12 and hook part 13. This form of the drapery hook 6 is shown in Fig. 3.

The particular form of the hook part 13 is not material in this case and may vary except that the leg '17 be in such spaced parallelism to the pin 12 that the space '16 and eye 15 have the general form above described.

The spline 11 may be formed of any suitable flexible material that is also readily adapted to be cut or severed as by a pair of hand scissors. Rubber, or one of the pliable plastics, such as polyethylenes, vinyls, Saran and Vinylite, may be advantageously used. A length of such material is provided, the same having a crosssectional form to loosely fit the space 16 and the eye 15. Thus, the spline '11 has a bulbous sectional form 18 along one edge and disposed in the eyes 15 of a complement of hooks '6 and a generally flat and uniform sectional form 19 that loosely fits the space 16. By making said bulbous form 'to be larger than the space 16, the spline cannot be displaced laterally. Therefore, a complement of hooks will remain connected to the spline and can be removed only in an endwise direction.

After assembly of hooks and spline, both ends of the latter are so enlarged as by application of heat, bending, or in other ways, as to provide the spline with end enlargements 20 that will not pass through the space 16. As a consequence, the clip 10 has unitary form insuring facile handling of a specified number of clips arranged between enlargements 20. By making the spline 11 longer than the length produced by such specified munber of hooks, as in Fig. 2, the hooks may be manipulated to insure against accidental interlacing such that they may become snarled.

It will be realized that it is a simple matter to refill magazine 7 with drapery hooks merely by cutting away one of the enlargements 20 and placing the clip 10 over the open end of the magazine, with the severed end of the spline 1-1 down and lowering the clip in a unitary manner downwardly. Since, as may be seen best in Fig. 3, the magazine may be open on one or both sides to expose the pin 12 and/or the hook 13, the operator may control the drop or fall of the hooks as the same are lowered into the stack. Thereafter, the spline may be upwardly withdrawn since the hooks are not held in alignment in stacked relation by the magazine walls.

It will be realized that drapery hooks are merely one form of element that may be used to make up a clip. Other type hooks or items may be connected by an element such as spline 11 providing the same are formed to effect connection substantially as above set forth.

While the foregoing specification illustrates and describes what I now contemplate to be the best mode of carrying out my invention, the construction is, of course, subject to modification without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Therefore, I do not desire to restrict the invention to the particular form of construction illustrated and described, but desire to cover all modifications thatmay fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. A drapery hook clip comprising a complement of drapery hooks in stacked arrangement, said hooks being formed to have portions so positioned as to define a narrow space terminating in a bulbous end, and a severable spline having a cross-sectional narrow and bulbous form the same as said loosely disposed therein, both ends of the spline being genlarged tobelarger'than, said narrow space.

2. A draperyhook clip according to cl'aimJl inwhich the-splineis flexible. V t I 3. A, clip. compris'ng a complement of stacked elements each having a'laterally open space with, an enlarged eye opposite. the openingof the space, an elongated severable and longitudinally flexible member extending through the elongatedeye-provided channel formed by the spaces of the complement of the stack of elements and looselyvfitting said channel, said member being provided with a thickened edge loosely disposed in the eye of the channel and larger than the channel itself, and an enlargement on each end of the. spline to hold the elements captive until one. said enlargement is removed by severing.

4. A spline for holding a stack of articles that are formed to define an elongated channel that has an open, relatively narrow space and a widened space that opens on the narrow space, said spline comprising an elongated and longitudinally flexible member thatis adapted to exnarrow space and bulbous end and tend longitudinally through said channel and beyond both ends of the stack of articles, the cross-sectional form of the spline comprising a relatively thin portion adapted to loosely reside in the narrow space of the channel in the stack of articles and a relatively thick portion adapted to loosely reside in the widened space of said channel, said relatively thick portion being thicker than the narrow space, thereby holding thestack of articles against lateral displacement fromthe spline.

5. A spline according 'to' claim 4 in is formed of severablemateriahtthe two ends of the spline being thickened to be larger than, the channel and the same holding the articlesofthe'stack captive on the spline until one ofsaidends. is severed. j

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,220,298 Vanderveld Mar; 27, 1917 1,709,034, 'Nelson'; Apr. 16, 1929 2,114,795 Chabon Apr. 19, 1938 2,347,319 Hanset Apr. 25, 1944 which the spline 

